Tuesday, November 21, 2006

There is "Just-ice" in the World:Morneau Edges Jeter for AL MVP

Sometimes you can believe that some things in sports aren't affected by karma -- a balance between good and bad. Then you see Justin Morneau beating favorite Derek Jeter for AL MVP and you realize that there might just be a force bigger than all of us making sure that, from time to time, shocking/amusing/wonderful things happen.

You should all check out Mike and the MadDog's interview with Joe Cowley, the Chicago Sun Times "reporter" who ranked Jeter 6th in the vote- behind Morneau, Dye, Santana, Thomas, and Papi. He doesn't have a leg to stand on. Really, amusing for Yankee fans and haters alike.

arguing that jeter was great in the clutch and then when the guy answers with "better than papi?" and your answer is basically "ummm" is retarded

saying numbers don't count period is retarded, look at dyes numbers then look at jeters.. thers a BIG difference

then saying that its about whos a leader and not numbers is retarded, if that was true whoever is the captain of the best team wins every year

they then argued it was about who took the team to the playoffs to which he responded with the big hurt is much more important to the As making the playoffs then jeter was to the yanks, which is perfectly true, and there answer again was basically "ummm..."

the guy was right and they do yell because they want to

they are huge morons for saving the santana argument (which was their only really solid 1) till after the guy was off the air

i sure hope these guys were left off the debate team cause that was the worst arguing i've ever heard

not that i woulda voted jeter 6th

deffinitly not 1st, but the guy gave his reasons for all except santana which they didn't even ask about

There were a few worthy candidates, and I'm just glad one of these actually won the award. Being an A's fan (among other actual valid reasons), I'm really glad someone other than Jeter did.

ESPN.com seemed surprised that the award came from somewhere other than the east coast. How many examples do we need of the Yankee love going on there. Its sickening. The little headlines on the front page I see right now talk of how Morneau isn't even the MVP of his team (Keith Law), how close the vote was, and how Jeter was the better choice (Rob Neyer). When I went to the ESPN MLB page I went from sick to outraged. The headlines of Law's story is in two places, one says "Morneau a laughable choice", the other says "Morneau awful choice for AL MVP". Laughable, awful? To retain my sanity, I should not read on. And I can't, because ESPN actually wants me to PAY to read his words? I think not.

Dan,You dispute that Jeter is the "face of baseball"; You don't think he was the MVP this season. Why are you so anti-Jeter? Did he try and make a play for your wife down there in NYC or something? We all know DJ is a notorious playboy!

i was wondering how not believing jeter is the mvp and the face of baseball constitues being anti-jeter. clearly the majority of the basebal writers of america didn't think he was the mvp and i doubt they would label him the face of baseball. but i don't think i'd say that thet are all anti-jeter.

I think taking personal satisfaction/amusement in seeing Jeter lose the MVP constitutes some sort of resentment against DJ. In addition, I don't know if you followed Dan during the Quickie era, but it always seemed he had a disproportionate amount of criticism for Jeter and Jeter supporters. So yeah, I stand behind my position that Dan is anti-Jeter.

P.S., when Ryan Howard gets a profile piece on 60 Mintues, maybe then he can enter the "face of baseball" conversation.

Just yesterday shanoff was saying jeter was going to win the award, and justifiably so. He expresses some schaudenfreude given that jeter doesn't win, but i wouldn't call it anti-jeter.

As for the face of MLB, ryan howard may be in the future, but he's not well known enough just yet (he is getting a backlash for winning the MVP; if some people are beginning to hate him, that's a good sign for his growing popularity). I'd say clemens and bonds and jeter and A-rod are still the most-well-known ballplayers out there. But I don't like any of there faces...

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